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  • 50 years of Cuban Agrarian Reform: overcoming challenges to feed the people

    50 years of Cuban Agrarian Reform: overcoming challenges to feed the people

    June 26, 2009 By John Bachtell

    The food needs of Cuba are vast and present a ready market for US farmers and agri-business corporations. Surprisingly, Cuba’s largest supplier of food and agricultural products is the US where it gets 70% of its...

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  • EDITORIAL: ACES is aces

    EDITORIAL: ACES is aces

    June 26, 2009

    The U.S. House of Representatives can take the first step towards saving our planet and reviving our economy by passing the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). This bill has the broad support of labor...

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  • EDITORIAL: A welcome move

    EDITORIAL: A welcome move

    June 26, 2009

    In calling for a stricter use of air strikes, Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the new commander of forces in Afghanistan, took a step back from the abyss. In coming to grips with the harsh reality that...

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  • Book review: Can capitalism last?

    Book review: Can capitalism last?

    June 26, 2009

    New book by American Communist explores answers to question of our timeBOOK REVIEWCan Capitalism Last? By Daniel Rubin , 2009, 196 pp, $10 “Marxism is dead. Socialism is dead. What better proof than the collapse of...

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  • Health care mess: how we got into it, how to get out of it

    Health care mess: how we got into it, how to get out of it

    June 26, 2009

    In 1979, the newly elected mayor of Chicago, Jane Byrne, at the recommendation of some labor union officials, named me to be a “consumer commissioner” on the City of Chicago Health Systems Agency (HSA) Board of...

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